© 2019 Los Angeles Review of Books. She was raised in the home of her Presbyterian pastor grandfather. * Silence is very far from restraint, it is a glorious weapon and often the only one available. Marianne Moore Silence Poem. It seems as if he wants to keep this awful dream secret “within the sound of silence”. And if one takes associative pleasure in it, such as thinking, My father or mother was a hard-ass, too, so much the better. Poetry can comfort and assuage, it just doesn’t comfort and assuage everyone — at least that’s what those people claim. Marianne Moore 2016. Bergman, her feminism seems to be different from other women in the fact that she does not necessarily seem to promote the idea that the woman can “have it all.” She seems to believe that a person needs to focus themselves on one specific thing and not spread themselves too thin. My father used to say, Ennui. My heart is still, as time will tell. Marianne Moore 2016. It can even be alienating. Also, its qualities can relate to the “[fluctuations]” (Moore 2) a person can endure in a lifetime. Marianne Moore’s poem “Poetry” [original version] is an exquisite piece of work. All but two and a half lines are in quotations marks, Moore’s quotation marks. Tearful truths I cannot scorn Marianne Moore, American poet whose work distilled moral and intellectual insights from the close and accurate observation of objective detail. Read poems about / on: solitude, cat, silence, sometimes, father, house, people, flower, Silence Poem by Marianne Moore - Poem Hunter. Her father seems to be expressing admiration for these superior people. Marianne Craig Moore was born on November 15, 1887 in Kirkwood, Missouri. My father used to say, “Superior people never make long visits, Have to be shown Longfellow’s grave Nor the glass flowers at Harvard. The poem itself, assessed in this way, becomes the author’s promise to pay on demand, to provide real and substantial evidence of a suffering life for which the poem itself is merely a kind of tictac or flyer.” The collocation has become so radioactive in our culture, one searches for a foothold along the slippery rocks near pop parlance’s viscous lagoon. Talisman . Although, the father of Marianne Moore never said the things set out in the poem. January 14, 2013 He is caught up in pontificating to the “silent” people, like his spawn, whether male or female, who is “self reliant” and certainly has a higher propensity to be “robbed of speech / by speech which has delighted them,” as most poet types, whether poetasters or the real thing, do. It is maybe how the speaker’s father would like to describe himself, if he had imagination, but he can’t — and wouldn’t — because if he understood the tenure of those lines, he would object, except for the last one, “not in silence, but restraint,” which seems a retort to the speaker’s (not the father’s), “The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;” with the semi-colon being the net between the two sparring family members. (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Related posts: The Silence Though the air is full of singing My head is loud With the labor of words. Filed under: Poem Sources — by moore123 @ 11:59 am Tags: "Silence", Glass Flowers, glass flowers at Harvard, Harvard, Homans, Physical Education, Ware Collection of Glass Fllowers. not in silence, but restraint.” Silence Summary. As Guy Davenport writes, “Her subjects are those of a mind intent on seeing things not only for what they are precisely, but how they act in and with the imagination.” Her methodology demonstrates a good exercise in creativity: listen to people, read some old books, think, and presto, poetry. The first one held the caveat, “acknowledgements seem only honest,” adding the proviso that more fanciful readers might “take probity on faith … and disregard the notes.” In “Silence,” a poem published almost 100 years ago in The Dial (October 1924), Moore paints a picture that can easily be consigned to the confessional poet realm that came to dominate English-language poetry from the 1950s onward.